City

Valerian Pidmohylnyi's The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

About the author

Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1901–1937) was one of the most prominent Ukrainian modernist writers, translators, and literary scholars of the early twentieth century. Three years after his arrest by the Soviet authorities in 1934, Pidmohylnyi was executed in Sandarmokh (Karelian Republic) with over 1,000 other prominent Ukrainian writers, poets, intellectuals, and activists in what later was dubbed the Executed Renaissance.Maxim Tarnawsky is Professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi’s Realist Prose and Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmoyl´nyi, and the translator and the editor of Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations.Maxim Tarnawsky is Professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi’s Realist Prose and Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmoyl´nyi, and the translator and the editor of Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations.

Summary

Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

Product details

• Authors: Valerian Pidmohylnyi
• Assisted by: Maxim Tarnawsky (Introduction), Maxim Tarnawsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780674291119
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29111-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fantasy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction in translation, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Anthologies, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general